Nikon pretty good too, but Canon is the best. When I started many years ago, Canon had the best lenses. And that’s important! But now it’s more. The world is digital, and Canon make the best chips. Nikon buy from Sony, admirable company, but CCD not as good as CMOS.
Most digital cameras have lot of noise. Very ugly pictures. Can look good if you have talent and skill, and frame good, with right color or a good black and white, but up close, pictures have ugly grain. I can’t stand this! That’s why I love CMOS. Even at very high ISO, is very clean. Has many benefits like pictures are more sharp because detail not lost to noise, and because anti-noise code not needed to blur your image. Colors are better. But most of all, nobody see grain when you look at the world, so it shouldn’t be in photos!
Friends ask me “what kind of camera should I buy?” and I say I have a very nice point and shoot. Never use it. Was a waste of money – very good, but gather dust.

Has to be quality
I just hate to regret if I get a picture that’s almost perfect, that’s all.